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I don't think the person made any attempt to hide their affiliation, did they? This kind of international cooperation on infectious disease is pretty normal, i

I don't think the person made any attempt to hide their affiliation, did they? This kind of international cooperation on infectious disease is pretty normal, i.e. that's how smallpox was eradicated, and it's also normal for military branches to have their medical services work on this as well. The issue, of course, is whether this is also cover for development of nation-state biological warfare programs, as this was a tactic used in the past to collect deadly viruses and bacteria by the Soviet, American, British and Japanese biological weapons programs, at least. Secrecy only encourages this kind of insanity, too.

ameminator 5y ago
Well, it does appear that the Canadian government only discovered that scientist was actually a Major-General in the Chinese army after he sent something like 15 vials of biomatter to the (one and only) Wuhan Institute of Virology without authorization. The extent of this leak also appears to be under a "Public Health Gag Order", presumably to hide the ineptitude of Canadian security procedures and to avoid public panic at how extensive this leak is. [0] I only heard about this story after the public health official responsible for the whole thing refused to appear before the Canadian government and give details on what happened. [1] [0] https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/09/17/canada-bsl4-virology-winnipeg-chinese-military.html https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/09/17/canada-bsl4-virology-... [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-president-of-the-public-health-agency-of-canada-admonished-by-house-of/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-president-o...